Farmer's eldest sister becomes rich

Chapter 282 Identifying Herbs

An Yue poked her head out from the main hall and saw that it was Wang Ke'er. She smiled and waved at Wang Ke'er, signaling her to come over quickly.

"Yueyue, why are you still at home?" Wang Ke'er asked as she walked towards the main hall.

An Yue said as she drank the water: "Don't you have to bring some water with you when you go out in this weather?"

Wang Ke'er came close to An Yue and asked in a low voice: "Yueyue, who are they?"

An Yue whispered back: "I bought them from the county town to help."

After hearing this, Wang Keer's eyes widened in shock, and she instantly became excited and wanted to ask something else.

But An Yue stopped him and said, "Shh... don't get excited. I've told everyone that they are distant relatives of my family. Don't say anything nonsense!"

Wang Ke'er sat on the bench, holding her chin with her hand, and asked thoughtfully: "Why did Yueyue say that she was a distant relative?"

"They are all very nice, and I treat them as my own family, so naturally I call them distant relatives!"

Wang Ke'er wanted to ask something else, but was interrupted by An Yue: "Okay, okay, let's talk about this matter in private later. We have to go out quickly and find your father and eldest brother! They must be waiting anxiously on the road!"

An Yue filled several bamboo buckets with water, took the buckets and pushed Wang Ke'er towards the yard.

Arriving in the yard, An Yue asked loudly, "Daniu Ale Chunzhi, are you all done with your work?"

"It's ready, miss." The three people standing in a line in the yard answered.

An Yue handed each of them a bamboo bucket of water and said, "Okay, let's dig plantain today."

When the three of them heard An Yue say that they wanted to dig plantain, everyone started to carry their backpacks and prepared to go out.

As they chatted and laughed, they soon arrived at the main road and met up with everyone.

After briefly greeting everyone, An Yue dug up a few different kinds of plantain from the side of the road and handed them to everyone to take a closer look.

He also introduced the characteristics of plantain to everyone: "Plantain usually grows on the roadside or in wasteland, and its seeds are spike-shaped..."

Everyone listened attentively and asked questions from time to time.

After An Yue introduced everyone, she said to everyone: "When you dig, pay attention to comparing the shape and smell of the plantain in your hands to identify it."

Everyone looked carefully and smelled the plantain in their hands.

"The first time you dig, everyone should identify them clearly. It doesn't matter if you dig slowly. The most important thing is to identify and distinguish them."

After An Yue finished speaking, she looked at everyone and said seriously, "If you dig the wrong thing and bring it to Yueyue, she won't buy it! Naturally, she won't pay you!"

Everyone nodded.

"Okay, let's start digging along the road first! After a quarter of an hour, check the plantain you dug for me to see if it was dug correctly."

After An Yue finished speaking, everyone started to act.

Chunzhi and Daniu Ale had already recognized each other, so there was no need to worry.

However, it is the first time for Wang Zhengmin's family and the Qin family to dig, so they have to be extra careful.

Teach them how to identify herbs first, which will save a lot of trouble when purchasing herbs in large quantities in the future.

Then, they can teach other people.

One teaches ten, ten teach a hundred, and in this way, it won’t be long before everyone in the village knows how to recognize herbs.

An Yue planned to teach them to recognize other herbs after they learned to identify plantain.

Commonly used medicinal materials in the town's pharmacies include mugwort, motherwort, dandelion, selfheal, houttuynia cordata and other herbs.

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A quarter of an hour later.

Qin put down the backpack and asked An Yue to check whether the plantain she had just dug in the backpack was correct.

An Yue turned it over and over with her hands to look at it, and said, "Aunt, what you dug is correct."

Qin smiled happily and said, "Okay, okay, since Yueyue is right, then Auntie will continue digging."

"Auntie, please wait a moment." An Yue said, and continued to check the plantain that Wang Keer had dug.

"Ke'er is right to dig this." Wang Ke'er was very happy after hearing this.

An Yue checked one by one, and finally found that the herbs in Wang Zhengmin's basket were not right.

"Uncle, the plantain you dug is half right, but it's also mixed with other weeds."

An Yue picked up a wrong one and said to everyone, "Everyone come over and take a closer look!"

After hearing this, everyone came closer to An Yue curiously.

"Look carefully, these two plants look very similar, but the plantain we want does not have white hairs on its stems and leaves."

Everyone took it and looked at it carefully. Qin said, "Oh, it's true! The two look similar, but one has white fuzz, and the leaves of the one without fuzz are wide and very smooth!"

Wang Keer added: "Also, the plantain we want seems to be darker green in color, and the flower spikes are thicker."

An Yue nodded and said affirmatively: "Yes, it seems that everyone quickly discovered the difference between them."

An Yue held up two herbs and said loudly to everyone, "Everyone must carefully identify them. Although digging herbs can make money, it is a delicate job. If you dig the wrong herbs and send them to the pharmacy after drying, it will cause big problems for the patients!"

After hearing this, everyone realized that digging herbs was not an easy task.

Qin said affirmatively: "It seems that digging herbs is still a matter of life and death."

"So, everyone must carefully identify and don't dig the wrong one."

Wang Hu took the two plants, one with fuzz and the other without, and walked to his father, Wang Zhengmin, and patiently explained, "Dad, did you see? The one with fuzz is not the herb we want to dig. Look, it's all white fuzz."

Wang Zhengmin narrowed his eyes, took a closer look, and exclaimed in surprise: "Wow! It really is!"

Then, in order to hide his embarrassment, he laughed again and said, "Haha... I was careless."

An Yue stepped forward and comforted him: "Uncle, it is normal to encounter such a problem when digging herbs for the first time. I think you will be more careful in the future, and this problem will not occur again. This is a good thing, a good thing."

After this incident, everyone started digging, but this time, everyone seemed more serious about digging plantain.

Knowing that digging herbs could be exchanged for silver, everyone was very motivated and wanted to dig hard for a day to see how much silver they could earn.

In order to dig more, Chunzhi, Daniu and Ale led Qin to dig in another direction, while Anyue dug with the Wang family.

The sun rises and sets, alternating with each other, and a day passes in the blink of an eye.

At the end of the day, everyone came to Anyue's yard, carrying the herbs they had dug.

They placed the backpacks one by one in the yard, waiting for An Yue to weigh them.

An Yue took a general look at the herbs in the yard. Everyone had dug a full basket.